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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
Eight slots, wow. Probably one of those 64GB gaming machines.
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Not just gaming. Eric S. Raymond recently built a machine he calls the Great Beast of Malvern. It has 64GB RAM among other things. But he's not a gamer. The Great Beast is designed to convert software repositories from one version control system to another. There are a number of version control systems out there, including Bazaar, CVS, git, Mercurial, RCS, sccs and SVN. (And that's just some of the open source products. There are commercial products as well.) Eric wrote tools to automate most of the conversion from one to another. A lot of products first written decades ago were still under CVS, one of the earliest VCSes. They really needed to be migrated to something more modern, but when the repository is many gigabytes in size with decades worth of commit histories, it's a daunting task. To grease the wheels, Eric built a machine that can run his software to
do the conversion and accomplish it within hours instead of days or weeks. His goal is to eliminate CVS in his lifetime. He has good reason for wanting to make it go away.
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I like Crucial. That's what I got when I added a stick to my computer. But that was when the computer was Windows before I converted it to Xubuntu. Crucial does this "guarantee" that the memory will work. You download their little program and it runs and tells you just what you need. Nice. Only thing is they don't do it for Linux computers. So how do I know that the memory I buy for my Linux computer will work? (Or do I ever know?)
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<sigh> RAM is
hardware. RAM needs to be the correct speed and form factor to be installed in and run correctly in the machine. If it will work in the hardware, it doesn't
matter what the OS is. On an x86 box, it could be Free/Net/OpenBSD, <whatever> Linux, MSDOS, Netware, OS/2, OS/X, Solaris, Unix, Win3.x/9.x/NT/2K/XP/7/8.1/10... The OS is built to run on the hardware, and all will access it the same way.
Whatever makes you think the fact that you're running Linux would matter here?
I like Crucial too, and have also used MemoryX. Crucial is a unit of long time DRAM manufacturer Micron Technology, and a Name Brand. Their tool to examine your system and tell you what kind of RAM you need is a boon. You don't have to pop the hood and peer to see what's installed.
Crucial is also in the SSD business these days (since NAND Flash is a form of non-volatile memory), and I have a Crucual MX-100 SSD in my desktop.
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Dennis